Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter